A Partial Record of Work of 
Graduates of the ------- 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 



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Troy, New York. 



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A Partial Record of Work of 

Graduates of the Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Institute. 



Troy, New York. 



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Contents. 






Explanatory NotEc _ - » . 

Preface, _ - _ _ « 

Names of Presidents of Corporations, 
Names of Chief Engineers, 
Names of Vice-Presidents and Managers, 
Educational Work of the Alumni, 
Names of State Geologists, 
Railroad Work of the Alumni, - 
Bridge Work of the Alumni, 
Names of Bridge Engineers, 
Members of the Am. Soc. C. E, - 
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Note— An asterisk ( * ) preceding a name indicates that the graduate 
is dead. 

In some cases the position given is that which was formerly, but not 
at present, held by the graduate. 




Explanatory. 



The occupations of the eight hundred and ninety-two living graduates 
of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are almost as varied as are the 
more important avocations of men. Its eminent alumni may be found in 
nearly all professions and in every field of industry. It is, therefore, 
surprising that there should be a substantial unanimity among them all in 
attributing to their technical training much of their success in life. Those 
who have embraced mercantile pursuits are often as enthusiastic as the 
engineers in commending the education received at our institution. The 
same might be said of well-known natural scientists, manufacturers, 
architects and editors. It would be interesting, if practicable, to so 
classify the whole body of the alumni as to afford some evidence of the 
effect of technical education in qualifying young men for any business 
requiring alert, incisive and precise mental power. The purpose of this 
pamphlet is to deal only with the more simple problem of pointing out the 
success of graduates of the school in a few of those pursuits which 
naturally absorb the greater number. 

The Annual Register contains the names and present residence and 
occupation of every living alumnus, compiled from the latest sources of 
information. It is indexed geographically, so that graduates in any 
communitj^ may readily be identified. Men of great reputation in every 
sphere of life will be recognized by those having- but a limited acquaintance 
with the business and intellectual activities of the day. Registers will be 
sent to persons interested on request. A more exhaustive investigation of 
the work of graduates, including that of the most recent classes, is 
earnestly invited. 



Preface. 



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The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was founded in 1824 at Troy, 
N. Y., by the Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer. 

This pamphlet is not intended to give a detailed description of its 
curriculum, which is fully elaborated in the Annual Register, but is 
designed to illustrate the value of its course of instruction as a School of 
Engineering. The best possible test of the efficiency of such a course is 
the success of the graduates in their professional work. It is desired to 
call particular attention to the success which a careful and thorough 
professional preparation of a high grade has enabled the graduates of 
recent years to attain. 

On account of the difficulty of obtaining accurate data of the work of 
the alumni, the lists here given are necessarily incomplete; but an 
inspection of their contents shows that there have been numbered among 
the graduates of the Institute at least sixty (60) Presidents, one hundred 
and eighty-five (185) Vice-Presidents, Managers and Superintendents, 
and one hundred (100) Chief Engineers of Railroad Companies, Steel and 
Iron Works, Bridge Companies, Water Works, Electric Companies, Mining 
Companies, Sewerage Systems, Canals, etc. Detailed, though partial, 
lists will also be found of the railroad systems developed, in part or in 
whole, by them, and of bridge companies and great bridges with which 
they have been professionally connected. There are also included the 
names of graduates who have become professors of science and the 
mechanic arts in higher institutions of learning; but no mention is made of 
many who have attained eminence in various special but not easily 
classified departments of science and engineering. 

The accompanying lithographic plate shows graphically the number 
in each graduating class who have held general professional positions of 
the character specified in the title, and who have been professors. 




Presidents of Corporations. 



There are given below the names of some of the graduates of the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute who have been Presidents of Railroad Com- 
panies, Steel and Iron Companies, Bridge Works, Locomotive 
Works, etc. : 



CLASS. 

1835 *WiLLiAM H. Clement, 

President of the Cincinnati Southern Railway Company. 
1837 *E. Thompson Gale, 

President of the United National Bank, Troy. 
1837 ♦Aaron B. Olmstead, 

President of the Saratoga Savings Bank. 
1837 *James P. Wallace, 

President of the New York Guaranty and Indemnity Company. 
1846 Samuel S. Greeley, 

President of the Greeley-Carlson Company. 
1846 *Percival Roberts, 

Pencoyd Iron Works. 
William A. Ingham, 

President of the Rock Hill Iron and Coal Company. 
*George B. Roberts, 

President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 
John F. Barnard, 

President of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. 
Frederick Grinnell, 

President of the Gleneral Fire ExtingTiieher CompaJiy of Providence, R. I, 
John M. Clark, 

President of Chicago Telephone Company. 
1856 *William W. Walker, 

President of the United States Central Railroad. 
G. Frederic Kirby, 

President of the Fidelity Bank and of the Le Grand Quarry Company. 
Ario Pardee, 

President of the Allentown Rolling Mill Company. 

Alexander J. Cassatt, 

President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, formerly President of the 
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company. 
1859 *Walter Crafts, 

President of the Baird Iron Company and the Commercial National Bank. 

1859 Harrison A. Royce, 

President of the Thomson Electric Welding Company. 

1860 Luiz DA R. Diaz, 

President of the Pecanha Araxa Railroad Company, Brazil; and of the 
International Company of Docks and Improvements of Bahia. 
1863 Augustus E. W. Painter, 

President of the J. Painter & Son Company, Iron Manufacturers. 

1863 *Frederick W. Vaughan, 

Late President of the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company. 



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CLASS. 

1864 Ralph G. Packard, 

President of the Atlantic Dredging Company, 
1864 *Christopher C. Waite, 

President of the Cincinnati, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railroad Company. v 

1866 * Joseph C. Platt, f 

President of the Mohawk and Hudson Manufacturing Company. 4 

1868 Joseph J. Albright, 

President of the Union Car Company and of the Depew Improvement Company. 
1868 Irving A. Stearns, 

President of the D. S. and S. R. R. Co., the C. C. Coal Co. and of Coxe Bros. & ^ 

Company. 

1870 Arthur E. Boardman, s 

President of the Macon Gas Light and Water Company. . 

1870 Robert C. Neal, 

President of the Harrisburg Rolling Mill Company. 

1871 Henry G. Morse. 

Formerly President of the Morse Bridge Company, and of the Edge Moor 
Bridge Works, now President of the New York Shipbuilding Company. 

1871 *Edward Nichols, 

President of the Brooks Locomotive Works. 
1871 Charles G. Roebling, 

President of John A. Roebling's Sons' Wire Rope Manufacturing Company. 

1871 Thomas M. Williamson, 

President of the Grand Tower and Carbondale Railroad Company. 

1872 John P. Alden, 

President of the Rochester Bridge and Iron Works. 

1872 Graham Macfarlane, 

President of the Macfarlane Coal Company. ^ 

1872 David Reeves, 

President of the Phoenix Iron Company and the Phoenix Bridge Company. t 

1872 Alfred Walter, 

President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. 

1873 Charles Campbell, 

President of the Iron Railroad Company. 

1873 Daniel A. Tompkins, 

President of the Atherton Cotton Mills. 

1875 *WiLLiAM L. Fox, 

Late President of the Foxburg, Petersburg and Clarion Railroad Company. 

1876 JosiAH R. T. Davis, 

President of the Lj^coming Improvement Co. and of the Galisteo Mining Co. 
1876 Isaac W. Frank, 

President of the Frank Kneeland Machine Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 
1876 George O. Knapp, 

President of the Equitable Gas and Fuel Company of Chicago. 

1876 Edward J. Landor, 

President of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. 
1876 Charles Sooysmith, 

President of Sooysmith & Co., Contracting Engineers. 

1876 Thomas H. Walbridge, 

President of the T., B., G. & F. Railway Company. 

1878 Harry S. Hodge, 

President of Samuel S. Hodge & Company, Machine Manufacturers, Detroit, 
Mich. 

1878 Daniel McLaren, 

President of the Addyston Pipe and Steel Company. 

1879 Eliphalet W. Cramer, 

President of the General Railroad Equipment Company. 

1879 William F. Endress, 

President of the Spanish Electric Company, Havana, Cuba. 

1879 Charles T. Raymond, 

President of the Lockport Pulp Company. 

1879 Frank E. Platt, 

President of the Elk Hill Coal and Iron Company, and of the New York and 
Scranton Coal Company, Scranton, Pa. 

1879 James M. Johnson, 

President of the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company. 

1880 Frederick Stafford Young, 

President of the International Development Company. 
1883 Franlkin H. Bowen, 

President of the Roberts Machine Company. 
1883 Alfred H. Rp:nsha\v, 

President of the Trojan Car Coupler Company and of the Standard Railroad 

Signal Company. 

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CLASS. 

1884 Seymour Cunningham, 

President of the City Electric Railway Company of Rome, Ga. 
1884 *Francis Spearman, 

President of the Humphrey Glass Company. 

1884 Harry L. Van Zile, 

President of the Franklin Boiler Works. 

1886 John Knickerbacker, 

President of the Mohawk and Hudson Manufacturing Company (the Eddy 
Valve Company) . 

1887 Stewart Johnston, 

President of the Pittsburg Steel Foundry. 

1889 Joseph B. Rider, 

President of the Darien Water Company. 



Chief Engineers. 



Many of the graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have become 
Chief Engineers of Railroads, Bridges, Bridge Companies, Steel 
"Works, Iron Works, Coal Companies, Water Y/orks, Canals, etc. 
Some of the names of such graduates are given below : 

CLASS. 

1837 *Henry R. Snyder, 

Chief Engineer of the Atlantic and Ontario Railroad. 

1838 *George W. R. Bayley, 

Chief Engineer of the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad. 

1840 *Charles Collins, 

Chief Engineer of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. 
1849 •George B. Roberts, 

Chief Engineer of the M. and B. M. Railroad and of the W. P. Railroad. 

1849 *Benjamin Turner. 

Chief Engineer of a Railroad In Nicaragua. 

1850 John F. Barnard, 

Chief Engineer of the Carillon and Grenville Railroad. 

1850 Cornelius S. Hasten, 

Chief Engineer of the Rochester and State Line Railroad. 

1851 *WiLLiAM H. Burrall, 

Chief Engineer of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. 
18S1 William B. Cogswell, 

Chief Engineer of the Solvay Process Company'. 
1853 *Charles H. Fisher. 

Chief Engineer of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. 

1856 *Leicester Burnett, 

Chief Engineer of the Fremont, Elkhorn Valley and Missouri River Railroad. 

1856 Joseph P. Davis, 

Chief Engineer, American Bell Telephone Company. 

1856 Charles C. Martin, 

Chief Engineer of the East River Suspension Bridge. 

1856 Hiram F. Mills, 

Chief Engineer for the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. 

1856 *WiLLiAM W. Walker, 

Chief Engineer of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railroad. 

1856 *JoHN A. Wilson, 

Chief Engineer of the Bennett's Branch Extension of the Allegheny Valley 
Railroad. 

1857 Frederic Y. Dabney, 

Chief Engineer, Georgia Central Railroad. 
1857 Charles Macdonald, 

Chief Engineer of the Reading and Columbia Railroad, etc. 
1857 Washington A. Roebling, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the East River Suspension Bridge. 



CLASS. 

1858 Clark Fisher, 

Formerly Chief Eng-ineer United States Na^y. 

1859 Albert S. Greene, 

Chief Engineer United States Navy. 
1859 Theodore I. Heizmann, 

Formerly Chief Engineer, Maintenance of Way, Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 
1859 Robert I. Sloan, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the South Side Rapid Transit, Chicago, and of the 

Metropolitan Elevated Railroad, New York. 

1859 *LoRENzo J. de Viscarondo, 

Chief Engineer of the Cordova and Malaga Railroad, Spain. 

1860 Alberto de Castro, 

Chief Engineer, Havana Tramway Company, Cuba. 

1860 LuiZDA R. DiAS, 

Chief Engineer, Bahia and Caribaen Railroad, Brazil. 

1860 *Henrique Harris, 

Chief Engineer of the New York and Manhattan Beach Railroad. 

1860 William H. Searles, 

Chief Engineer of the Essex Iron Company 

1861 Alfred P. Boller, 

Chief Engineer of the West Side and Yonkers Railroad. 

1861 BURDETT C. GoWING, 

Chief Engineer, United States Navy. 

1862 Aniceto G. de Menocal, 

Chiei Engineer of the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company, 

1862 John C. Underwood, 

Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Bridges. 

1863 Van Brunt Bergen, 

Chief Engineer, Department of City Works, Brooklyn. 

1863 *James p. Gould, 

Chief Engineer of the Delhi and Middletown Railroad. 

1863 Edwin Thacher, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the Keystone Bridge Company, Chief Engineer 
of the firm of Keepers & Thacher. 

1863 Ignacio M. de Varona, 

Chief Engineer of the Albany Special Water Commission. 

1863 *Frederick W. Vaugkan, 

Chief Engineer of the Henderson Bridge Company. 

1864 Robert Van Buren, 

Chief Engineer. Department of Public Works of Brooklyn, N. Y, 

1864 *Christopher C. Waite, 

Chief Engineer of the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad. 

1865 Clifford Buxton, 

Chief Engineer of Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad. 
1865 Henry W. Farnum, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the South Side Railroad of Long Island, Chief 
Engineer of Sewers, Borough of the Bronx, New York. 

1865 Horace Loomis, 

Chief Engineer of Sewers, Borough of Manhattan. 

1866 Albon P. Man, 

Chief Engineer of the Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company. 

1866 Charles Vv^. Rae, 

Chief Engineer, United States Navy. 

1866 Holland N. Stevenson, 

Chief Engineer, United States Navy. 

1867 Carlos Guerrero, 

Chief Engineer, Ferro Carriles Unidos, Cuba. 
1867 Jose Hernandez, 

Chief Engineer Santo Domingo Railroad. 
1867 Earnesto L. Luaces, 

Chief Engineer of the Santo Marta Railroad, Colombia, 
1867 Albert H. Millet, 

Chief Engineer of the Southern Railroad of Ecuador, S. A. 
1867 PoMPKYO Sariol. 

Chief Engineer of the Caibarien and Santo Espiritu Railroad, Cuba. 

1867 William B. Stilson, 

Chief Engineer in the Track Department, Michigan Central Railroad. 

1868 Thomas Appleton, 

Chief Engineer of the Copper Range R, R., Michigan. 
1868 Virgil G. Bogue, 

Chief Engineer of the Portland and Puget Sound Railroad, and of the Union. 
Pacific Railroad. 

1868 Roswell E. Brighs, 

Chief Engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. 

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1868 Leffert Li. Buck, 

Chief Eng-ineer of the Niagara Falls Arch Bridges, and of the New East River 
Bridge, New York City. 

1868 Othniel F, Nichols, 

Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad. 

1869 Robert B. C. Bement, 

Chief Engineer of the Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad. 
1869 Robert Forsyth, 

Chief Engineer of the Illinois Steel Company. 
1869 •Henry G. McClellan, 

Chief Engineer of the Nevada and Oregon Railroad. 

1869 William A. Thompson, 

Chief Engineer of the Sussex Railroad. 

1870 Thomas O'Neil Morris, 

Chief Engineer of the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad. 

1871 Miguel de T. Argollo, 

Chief Engineer of the Prolongamento da Estrada de Ferro da Bahia, Brazil. 
1871 Milton "W. Ensign, 

Chief Engineer of the B. A. and P. R. R. Co. 

1871 Fred L. Garlinghouse, 

Chief Engineer of the Pittsburg Bridge Company. 

1872 Alexander J. Swift, 

Chief Engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Company. 

1874 Lyman E. Cooley, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the Chicago Drainage Commission. 

1875 Walter E. Dauchy, 

Chief Engineer of the C, R. I. and P. R. R. Co. 

1875 H. DeWitt Smith, 

Chief Engineer of the Paris, Marshall and Sabine Pass Railroad. 

1876 Edward J. Landor, 

Chief Engineer of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. 

1876 Henry C. Shaw, 

Chief Engineer of the Lewis Foundry and Machine Company, 

1877 AlbynP- Dike, 

Chief Engineer of the St. J. and E, RaUroad. 

1878 Seijiro Hirai, 

Chief Engineer of the Poronai Railroad, Japan. 

1878 George S. Davison, 

Chief Engineer of the Pittsburg, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railroad. 

1878 Alpheus T. Sabin, 

Chief Engineer of the N. N. and M. V. Co., ( W. D.) , and Ohio VaUey Railroad. 

1878 Edward C. Shankland, 

Chief Engineer, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 

1878 Charles R. Smith, 

Chief Engineer of the Yakima Irrigation Company. 

1879 James M. Johnson, 

Chief Engineer of the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company. 

1879 Alfred A. Stuart, 

Chief Engineer of the Degnon-McLean Construction Company. 

1880 Albert Newman Connett, 

Chief Engineer of the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company. 

1880 Wynkoop Kiersted, 

Chief Engineer, Water Works Department, Kansas City, Mo. 

1880 Frank C. Osborn, 

Chief Engineer of the King Bridge Comp<iny. 

1880 James W. Pearl, 

Chief Engineer of the Massillon Bridge Company. 

1882 Frederick Rosenberg, Jr. 

Chief Engineer of the Colorado Coal and Mining Company. 

1885 Henry W. Hodge, 

Chief Engineer of the Union Iron Works. 

1885 Leverett S. Miller, 

Chief Engineer of the St. Paul and Duluth Railway. 

1885 Luis de la Rosa, 

Chief Engineer of Mining Companies, Mexico. 

1886 Frederic N. Kimball, 

Chief Engineer of the Sonora and Sinaloa Irrigation Company. 

1886 Thomas F. Lawlor, 

Chief Engineer of the G. F. Mellen Company. 

1886 Sumner LaRue Tone, ^. ._ t^ 

Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Co. ( Street Railways ) , Pittsburg, Pa. 

1886 Oswald E. Winger, 

Chief Engineer of the Enclosed Prism Company. 



CLASS. 

1887 Pedro T. Aguilera, 

Chief Eng-ineer of the Juragua Mining' Company, Cuba. 
1887 Richards. Buck, 

Chief Engineer of the Lewiston and Queenstown Suspension Bridge Company. 
1887 Richard H. Hood, 

Chief Engineer of the Sea Board Air Line. 

1887 HalseyB. Pomeroy, 

Chief Engineer of the Monte Christo Mining Company. 

1888 James M. Africa, 

Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Midland Railroad. 

1888 Pemberton Smith, 

Chief Engineer of the Canada Iron Furnace Company. 

1889 Edtjardo J. Chibas, 

Chief Engineer of the Guantanamo Railroad, Cuba. 

1889 George S. Groesbeck, 

Chief Engineer of the Springfield Construction Company 

1891 William H. Thomas, 

Chief Engineer of the Indianapolis Switch and Frog Company. 

1892 Carlos C. Arosemena, 

Chief Engineer of the Panama Water Works. 



Vice-Presidents, General Managers and Superintendents of Rail- 
roads, Bridge Companies, Steel and Iron Companies, Mining 
Companies, Coal Companies, Water Works, Canals, Etc. 



class. 

1838 *George W. R. Bayley, 

General Superintendent of the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad. 

1838 *WiLLiAM G. Lapham, 

Late Superintendent of the Western Division of the New York Central and 
Hudson River Railroad. 

1839 *Strickland Kneass, 

Late Assistant to the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 

1846 James A. Penfield, 

Superintendent of Iron Works, Boston, Mass. 

1848 *JamesG. Thompson, 

Eastern Manager of the Chicago Herald. 

1849 *George B. Roberts. 

Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

1850 John F. Barnard, 

General Manager of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. 

1850 Cornelius S. Masten, 

Vice President and Manager, Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad. 

1851 William B. Cogswell, 

General Manager of the Solvay Process Company. 

1855 Frederick Grinnell, 

Superintendent of Motive Power of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad 
Company. 

1856 *Leicester Burnett, 

Superintendent of the Tremont. Elkhom Valley and Missouri River Railroad. 
1856 William H. Martin, 

Vice President Rawhide Gold Mining Company. 
1856 *WiLLiAM W. Walker, 

Vice President of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad. 

1856 Edmund Yardley, 

Superintendent of Transportation, Pittsburg Division of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

1857 Frederick Y. Dabney, 

Superintendent of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad. 

1857 G. Frederic Kirby, 

F'ormerly Superintendent I. C. R. R. 

1858 Joseph M Knap, 

Joint Proprietor and Superintendent of the Fort Pitt Foundry. 

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CLASS. 

1858 William Metcalf, 

Joint Proprietor of the Crescent Steel Works. 
1858 Ario Pardee, 

Superintendent of Coal Mines, Hazelton, Pa. 

1858 * Joseph G. Rice, 

Superintendent of Silver Mines. 

1859 Alexander J. Caspatt, 

Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 
1859 *Walter Crafts, 

Formerly Vice President Woodstock Iron Company and of the C. and H. Iron 
and Coal Company'. 

1859 Theodore I. Heizmann, 

Vice President Perm Hardware Company. 

1859 Harrison A. Royce, 

General Manager Thomson Electric Welding Company. 
1859 *Rcssell Sage, 2nd, 

Superintendent of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. 
1859 Arthur B. de Saulles, 

Superintendent of Coal Mines, Pottsville, Pa. 

1859 Robert I. Sloan, 

Superintendent of the St. Joseph and Marysville Railroad, 

1860 William H. Searles, 

Vice President of the Essex Iron Company. 
1861. *Ebenezer p. Buckingham, 

Superintendent of Oil Wells, Mt. Vernon, O. 

1861 *ROBERT NeILSON, 

General Superintendent P. and E. Div. of the P. R. and N. C. Railroad. 
1861 T. Guilford Smith, 

Vice President New York Car Wheel Works. 
1861 William N. Symington, 

Superintendent of the American Barytes Company. 
1863 Augustus E. W. Painter, 

General Manager of Iron Works, Pittsburg, Pa. 

1863 Ignacio M. de Varona, 

Superintendent of the Albany Water Works. 

1864 *Christopher C. Waite, 

Vice President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. 
1866 Theodore N. Ely, 

Chief of Motive Power of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
1866 Herbert C, Felton, 

Superintendent of the Kaighns' Point and Philadelphia Ferry Company. 
1866 William P. Harris, 

Superintendent of tne C. C. & C. Railroad. 
1866 *Benjamin W. Lilienthal, 

Late Superintendent of the New York Mill, for the Golden Chariot Company. 
1866 Albon P. Man, 

General Manager Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad Company. 

1866 William H. Wiley, 

Superintendent of the Tunnel Hill Coal Company. 

1867 Frank J. Hearne, 

General Manager of the Riverside Iron Works. 
1867 Carlos Guerrero, 

General Manager of the Zaza Railroad, Cuba. 

1867 John Saltar, 

Vice President of the Otto Gas Engine Works, Philadelphia, Pa. 

1868 Joseph J. Albright, 

Vice President of the Marine Bank. 
1868 Thomas Appleton, 

Superintendent of Bridges and Buildings of the Galveston, Harrisburg, and 

San Antonio Railroad. 
1868 Joseph H. Campbell, 

Superintendent of Iron Works, Ironton, O. 

1868 Othniel F. Nichols, 

General Manager of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad. 

1868 'Harwood V. Olyphant, 

Late Assistant President of the Delaware and Hudson Company. 
1868 George S. Skilton, 

Superintendent of Reservoirs and Conduits, Department of City Works, 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1868 Irving A. Stearns, 

Manager of Coal Companies, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

1869 Truman H. Aldrich, 

Vice President Gahaba Coal Mining Company. 

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CLASS. 

1869 Henry Burden, 

Western General Manager of the Colorado Coal and Iron Company. 
1869 Robert Forsyth, 

General Sui>erintendent of the Union Steel Company, Second Vice President of 

the Illinois Steel Company. 

1869 Robert C. Peebles, 

Assistant Superintendent M. N. R. R., Mexico. 

1869 Arthur B. Starr, 

Superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 
pany. 

1869 Lowell H. Stone, 

Superintendent of the Iowa Southwestern Railroad. 

1869 Theodore Voorhees, 

General Superintendent New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. First 
Vice President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. 

1870 Robert C. Neal, 

Manager of the Lochiel Iron Works, Harrisburg, Pa. 

1870 Nathaniel E. Russell, 

General Manager of the W. A. Wood M. & R. Machine Company. 

1871 *WiLLiAM L. Baker, 

Superintendent of the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works. 
1871 Alfred S. Bertolet, 

General Manager of the West Duluth Furnace Company. 
1871 Charles L. Grimes, 

Superintendent Moline Iron Works. 
1871 Alfred P. Kirtland, 

Superintendent of West Perm Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

1871 M. William Mansfield, 

Superintendent of the I. and V. Division of the Pennsylvania Company. 
1871 *Edward Nichols, 

Superintendent of the Ridge Valley Iron Works. 
1871 Richard Schermerhorn, 

Superintendent of Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad. 

1871 Thomas M. Williamson, 

Superintendent Spiral Weld Tube Company. General Manager Steams 
Manufacturing Company. 

1872 William H. Burr, 

Vice President Sooysmith & Company. General Manager of the Phcenijc 
Bridge Company. 

1872 William B. Sherman, 

Superintendent of Coal Mines, Pottsville. Pa. 

1872 Alfred Walter, 

General Manager of the New York, Lake Erie, and Western Railroad. 

1873 *James E. Bell, 

General Superintendent of the Construction of Locks, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
1873 Charles Campbell, 

General Manager of the Hecla Iron Company. 

1873 - Charles P. Harris, 

General Manager of the Harris Manufacturing Company. 

1873 Thomas J. Long, 

Vice President of R. P. & J. H. Staats, (Incorp.) Engineers and Contractors. 

1873 James Reed, 

Superintendent of West Pennsylvania Division of Pennsylvania Railroad. 
1873 William H. Reeves. 

Superintendent of the Phoenix Iron Company. 
1873 *Pedro J. SosA, 

Formerly Chief of Technical Control of the Panama Canal. Chief Engineer 

Panama Water Works, Panama, R. of C. 
1873 Theodore Steinacker, 

Superintendent of the Wyatt Park Electric Railway, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1873 Daniel A. Tompkins, 

Vice President of the Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Company. 

1874 'Frank L. Lord, 

General Manager of the Chronicle Mining and Milling Company. 

1874 Alexander P. Gest, 

Superintendent of the Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

1875 R. Edward Ball, 

Proprietor and Superintendent of Lead Mines, Salina, Utah. 
1875 Henry L. Binsse, 

Joint Proprietor and Manager of the Newark Machine Tool Works. 
1875 Walter E. Dauchy, 

General Suiierintendent of the P. T. & A. Railroad. 
1875 Edward W. Eckert, 

General Manager Construction Company, West Side Elevated Railroad, 

Chicago, 111. 

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CLASS. 

1875 William G. Kay, 

General Superintendent, Independent Cotton Oil Company. 

1875 Jacob T. "Waustwright, 

Vice President of the Drake & Stratton Company, Pittsburg, Pa. 

1876 JosiAH R. T. Davis, 

Gteneral Manager of the Telephone Company, Harrisburg, Pa. 

1876 Isaac W. Frank, 

General Manager of the Frank Kneeland Machine Company, Pittsburg, Pa, 
1876 William W. Huntington, 

Superintendent of the Eagle Bird Mines, Red Cliff, Col. 
1876 SouiCHiRO Matsmoto, 

Superintendent of the Imperial Government Railway, Tokio, Japan. 
1876 John W. Nier, 

Manager of the Lucky Marion Gold Mining Company. 

1876 Charles S. Pease, 

General Superintendent Interior Conduit and Insulation Company. 

1877 Joseph Bushnell, Jr , 

Vice President of the Warden Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Pa, 
1877 Howard N. Elmer, 

Manager of the Western Office of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company. 

1877 Henry R. Griffin, 

General Manager of the Griffin Enamel Brick Co. 

1877 Antonio Lavandeira, 

Manager of Diamond Mines, Rio de Janeiro, BraziL 

1877 Horace G. Young, 

Vice President of the Delaware and Hudson Company. 

1878 W. Irving Babcock, 

Manager of the Chicago Ship Building Company, 

1878 Clarence M. Barber, 

Superintendent of the National Carbon Company. 

1878 Kaname Haraguchi, 

Superintendent of the Formosa Railway, Tokio, Japan. 

1878 Harry S. Hodge, 

Superintendent of the Lake Superior Iron Works. 

1878 Daniel McLaren, 

General Superintendent of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. 

1878 A. T. Sab in. 

Superintendent of the Road Department of the C. O. and S. Railroad 
Company. 

1878 George E. Th AC kray. 

Superintendent and Chief Engineer, Structural Department, Cambria Steel 
Company. 

1879 Robert R. Bridgers, 

Superintendent N. C. Division of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. 

1879 Henry W. Brinsmade, 

Superintendent of the Lake Superior Iron Works. 

1879 Eliphalet W. Cramer, 

Manager of the Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company. 

1879 Frank E. Platt, 

Superintendent of Blast Furnace, Scranton, Pa. 

1879 Henry W. Potter, 

Superintendent of Silver Mines, City of Mexico. 

1879 Charles T. Raymond, 

Superintendent of the Lockport Pulp Company. 

1879 William B. Ridgely, 

Vice President of the Springfield Iron Company. 

1879 William G. Sharp, 

Superintendent of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company. 

1879 William G. Wilkins, 

Superintendent of the Bureau of Engineering and Surveys, Allegheny, Pa. 

1880 Frank Leslie Clark, 

William Clark Sons & Company, Iron Works. 

1880 Wade Converse. 

Superintendent Trenton Malleable Iron Compan3\ 

1880 Wilberforce Beecher Hammond, 

Manager of the Sales Department of the Ticonderoga Machine Company. 

1880 Strickland L. Kneass, 

Superintendent Injector Department, Wm. Sellers & Company 

1880 L. G. DA S. Leme, 

General Manager of the Brigantina Railroad, Brazil. 
1880 C. ROLLIN Manville, 

Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Division of the Delaware and Hudson 

Company. 

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CLASS. 

1880 Joseph Allen Powers, 

Manager Glens Falls Electric Railway. 
1880 Preston King Yates, 

Superintendent of Construction, New Central Bridge, New York, N. Y. 

Manager for Washburne & Washbume, Contractors. 

1880 FREDERICK Stafford Young, 

Assistant to President, Gilbert Car Manufacturing Company. 

1881 Francisco de A. Cintra, 

Superintendent Tarbati Gas and Mineral Oil Company, Tarbati, Brazil. 

1881 ♦Elmore B. McNeil, 

General Superintendent of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad. 

1882 George R. Baucus, 

General Manager Pelican Mining Company. 

1882 James H. Covode, 

General Manager K. C, F. S. and S. Railroad. 
1882 Independence Grove, 

General Manager of the Colorado Coal and Iron Company. 

1882 F'rederick Rosenberg, 

General Manager of the Colorado Coal and Mining Company. 

1883 Franklin H. Bo wen, 

(General Manager of the Cumberland Steel and Tin Plate Company. 
1883 Albert W. Buel, 

Superintendent of the Milwaukee Bridge Company. 
1883 Edgar B. Kay, 

Superintendent of the Bellwood Electric Light and Water Works Companies. 
1883 Robert J. Pratt, 

Manager of Electric Manufacturing Company. 

1883 Alfred H. Renshaw, 

General Manager and Treasurer of the Trojan Car Coupler Company. 

1884 John D. Colby, 

Vice-President of the Foote & Thome Glass Company. 
1884 George R. Elder, 

Superintendent of the Switch Works of the Johnson Company. 

1884 Harry L. Van Zile, 

Manager of the New York OflBce of the Heine Safety Boiler Company. 

1885 Fabriciano Botero, 

General Manager of the Antioquia Railroad. 

1885 Elias Chesrown, 

Superintendent of the Bangor Street Electric Railway. Greneral Manager of 
the Snoqualmie Power Company. 

1885 Griffith M. Eldridge, 

Superintendent of Water Works, Americus. Ga. Superintendent of the Defi- 
ance Water Company. 

1885 William H. Hassinger, 

Vice-President and Manager of the Alabama Rolling Mill Company. 
1885 Henry A. La Chicotte, 

Eastern Manager of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. 

1885 Leverett S. Miller, 

General Manager of the Seattle and International Railroad. 
1885 Neil R. Montgomery, 

Assistant Superintendent and Engineer of John A. Roebling's Sons' Company. 

1885 Marcus H. Ranney, 

Manager of the Calendar Mining and Milling Company. 

1886 James H. Caldwell, 

Vice-President of the Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Company. 

1886 Tracy C. Drake, 

Manager of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, 111. 

1886 Albert L. Haock, 

Superintendent of the East End Works of the Cincinnati Gas Light and Coke 
Company, 

1886 William C. Hawley, 

Superintendent of the Water Department, Atlantic City, N. J. 

1886 Edwin N. Sanderson, 

Manager of the New England Agency of the Westinghouse Electric and Manu- 
facturing Company. 

1886 Vincent B. Ward, 

Manager of the Oil Creek Oil Company and Superintendent of the Manhattan 
Oil Company. 

1887 Pedro T. Aguilera, 

Superintendent of the Pomepo Manganese Company. 
1887 William I. Baucus, 

Manager of the North Adams Marble and Milling Company. 

1887 Richard S. Buck, 

Superintendent of the Carney Phosphate Company. 

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CLASS. 

1887 George E. Gifford, 

Eastern Manager of the King Bridge Company. 
1887 Thomas Harrold, Jr., 

Manager of the Americus Compress. 
1887 Philip H. Henry, 

General Manager and Assistant to the President of the Barber Asphalt 

Paving Company. 

1887 Stewart Johnston, 

Superintendent of the American Steel Casting Cempaay. Superintendent of 
the Pittsburg Steel Casting Company. 

1887 John M. Lockhakt, 

Vice-President of the Pittsburg Steel Foundry. 

1887 Richard G. Wagner, 

Manager of the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works. 

1888 James M. Africa, 

General Manager of the Etowah Iron Company. 
1888 Robert K. Brown, 

Superintendent of the Casparis Stone Company. 

1888 Frank J. Eppele, 

Vice-President and General Manager of the Trenton Malleable Iron Company. 
1888 Abraham L. A. Himmelwright, 

General Manager of the Phoenix Company. General Manager of the Columbia 

Granite Company. 
1888 James W. Howard, 

Superintendent of the Barber Asphalt Company. 

1888 Pemberton Smith, 

Superintendent of the Hudson River Bridge Company. 

1889 Eduardo J. Chibas, 

Superintendent of the Carribean Manganese Company. 
1889 JosiAH M. Estep, 

Superintendent of Electric Railway Construction with the Osbom Company. 

1889 Marcus Powell, 

Manager of the New York office of the Crosby Steam Gauge and Valve Co. 

1890 Carl F. Adam, 

Superintendent of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company. 
1890 William D. Card, 

Superintendent of the W. L. Mellon Pipe Lines. 

1890 Walter G. Filer, 

General Manager of the S. Valley Electric Light Company. 

1891 George Baum, 

Superintendent of Gas Appliances, Consolidated Gas Company. 
1891 John Sheffield, 

Vice-President of the Sheffield Huntington Company. 

1891 Samuel R. Thomas, 

Assistant to the General Manager of the Thomas Iron Company. 

1891 John W. Tumbridge, 

Manager of Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

1892 Charles E. Birch, 

Manager of the Industrial Iron Works, Cincinnati, O. 

1893 MoiSE De Leon, 

Manager of the Structural Department, Dickson Car Wheel Company. 

1892 George E. Ellis, 

Superintendent of the Hudson River Bridge Company. 

1892 Edward E. Emmerich, 

Assistant Gieneral Manager of Chas, Emmerich and Company. 
1892 W. C. H. Slagle, 

Business Manager of the Crawford Iron Works. 

1892 AiiNOLD H. Sutermeister, 

Superintendent of the Union Railroad Company. Superintendent and Engi- 
neer of the Grade Crossing Bureau, N. Y. State Railroad Commission. 

1893 Percy C. Barney, 

Manager of the Brunswick Water and Light Works. 

1893 Theodore E. Knowlton, 

Superintendent of Construction, British Columbia Southern Railway. 



15 




What the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has done for 

Education. 



The following- list contains the names of some of the graduates of the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who have been connected as 
Professors and Assistant Professors with the higher institutions 
of learning in this and other countries. Besides these many others 
have served in Colleges and Technical Schools as teachers in 
various capacities. 

CLASS 

1826 *Hezekia.h H. Eaton, 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry in Transylvania University. 

1826 *TlMOTHY DWIGHT EaTON, 

Assistant Professor of Natural History in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

1826 ♦Ebenezer Emmons, 

Professor of Geology and Mineralogy m Williams College. 

1828 *Fay Edgerton, 

Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in Utica High School. 

1829 *JoHN M. Barrows, 

Professor of Chemistry and Botany in Olivet College. 

1829 *JosEPH B. Clarke, 

Professor of Natural Science. 

1830 * Joseph Thomas, 

Professor of English Literature in Swarthmore College. 

1831 *Abram Sager, 

Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Michigan. 

1832 * James Hall, 

Professor of Theoretical, Practical, and Mining Geology in Rensselaer Polytech- 
nic Institute. 

1832 *S. Wells Williams, 

Professor of Chinese and Oriental Literature, Yale College. 
1838 *EzRA S. Carr, 

Formerly Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of California. 

1838 *Eben N. Horsford, 

Formerly Rumford Professor in Harvard University. 

1839 *George H. Cook, 

Director Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Professor of Chemistry and 
Natural Philosophy in Rutgers College. 

1841 *Henry Pomeroy, 

Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering in Lawrence University, and 
Professor of Mathematics in Washington University. 

1842 •B. Franklin Greene, 

Director Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Professor of Mathematics 
United States Navy. 

1842 FiTZEDWARD HaLL, 

Professor of the Sanskirt Language and Literature, and of Indian Juris- 
prudence, in Kings College, London. 
1842 *Aaron L. Lindsay, 

Professor in Pacific Theological Seminary, Oakland, Cal. 

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CLASS. 

1846 James H. Salisbury, 

Formerly Professor of Physiology and Anatomy in Cleveland Charity 
Hospital M edical School. 

1847 *Charlks Drowne, 

Director of and Professor of Mechanics in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

1847 George W. Plympton, 

Professor of Physical Science in Brooklyn Colleg-iate and Polytechnic Institute, 
and Director of the Cooper Union School of Science. 

1848 Richard Edwards, 

President of Blackburn University. 

1851 David M. Greene, 

Formerly Professor of Geodesy, and Director Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 
1851 S. Edward Warren, 

Formerly Professor of Descriptive G^ometrj' and Stereotomy in Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Institute, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
1853 Dascom Greene, 

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Rensselaer Polytechnic 

Institute. 

1857 *De Volson Wood, 

Formerly Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of Michigan, Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics and Mechanics in Stevens Institute of Technology. 

1860 Charles McMillan, 

Formerly Professor of Geodesy in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Civil 
Engineering in Lehigh University and now Professor of Civil Engineering in 
Princeton University. 

1860 John Pemberton, 

Formerly Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the United 
States Naval Academy. 

1860 John D. Van Buren, 

Formerly Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the 
United States Naval Academy. 

1861 William Fenton, 

Formerly Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Gteodesy in Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute. 

1861 *JosEPH G. Fox, 

Late Professor of Civil and Tojwgraphical Engineering in Lafayette College. 

1861 Estevan a. Fuertes, 

Professor of and Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Cornell 

University. 

1862 William L. Adams, 

Formerly Professor of G^desy and Director of Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute. 

1862 *Richard H. Buel, 

Formerly Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in thfr 
United States Naval Academy, 

1866 Charles W, Rae, 

Formerly instructor in Engineering in the United States Naval Academy. 

1867 Arthur Beardsley, 

Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Director of Mechanic Arts in Swarth- 
more College. 

1868 *Gaspar F. de Ceballos, 

Professor of Mathematics, English Language and Drawing, Institute 

Veracrysano, Botica la Merced, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
1870 John H. Randolph, 

Instructor in Practical Mechanics in Louisiana State University. 
1870 Hekry a. Rowland, 

Professor of Physics in the Johns Hopkins University. 

1870 *JUSTUS M. SiLLIMAN, 

Markle Professor of Mining Engineering and Graphics in Lafayette College. 

1871 Arthur W. Bower, 

Formerly Professor of Physics in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

1871 Spencer V. Rice, 

Formerly Instructor of Graphics and Field Work in Lehigh University. 

1872 William H. Burr, 

Formerly Professor of Mechanics in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and 
Professor of Engineering in Harvard University. Professor of Civil 
Engineering Columbia University. 

1873 Arthur L. Baker, 

Professor of Mathematics, University of Rochester. 

1873 Arthur J. Frith, 

Formerly Instructor in Civil and Mechanical Engineering in Lehigh Univer- 
sity. 

1874 Lyman E. Cooley, 

Formerly Professor of Civil Engineering in the Northwestern University 

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CLASS. 

1874 William P. Mason, 

Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

1875 Palmer C. Ricketts, 

Professor of Mechanics in and Director of the Rensselaer Polytechnic 

Institute. 
1875 John A. L. Waddell, 

Formerly Professor of Engineering- in the University of Tokio, Japan. 
1877 Daniel W. Church, 

Formerly Professor of Civil Engineering in Iowa Agricultural College. 

1877 Seymour W. Tullock, 

Formerly Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of 
Wisconsin. 

1878 Kaname Haraguchi, 

Professor in the University of Tokio, Japan. 

1879 Fred N. Willson, 

Professor of Descriptive Geometry, Stereotomy and Drawing in Princeton 
University. 

1879 Don Carlos Young, 

Instructor in the University of Deseret, Salt Lake City, Utah. Professor of 
Mathematics in the Brigham Young Academy. 

1883 Edgar B. Kay, 

Instructor in Civil Engineering, Cornell University. 

1883 ♦J. Francis Williams, 

Late Assistant Professor of Geology, Cornell University. 

1884 Charles W. Crockett, 

Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute. 
1884 William W. Cummings, 

Professor of Drawing and Mechanical Engineering Colorado State School of 
Mines. 

1884 Charles W. Parks, 

Acting Professor of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

1885 Fabriciano Botero, 

Professor of Engineering in the National School of Mines, Medellin, R. of 
Colom.bia. 
1885 James Hetzel, 

Professor of Descriptive Geometry, Western University of Pennsylvania. 

1885 Edgar Marburg, 

Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of Pennsylvania. 

1886 Hugh McV. Anderson, 

Professor of Physics in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 

1886 Henry B. Davenport, 

Professor of Civil and Mining Engineering in the University of West Virginia. 

1887 Richard H. Hood, 

Professor of Engineering and Dean of the Engineering Department in the 
University of Missouri. 

1887 George W. Worcester, 

Professor of Natural and Physical Science in Browne and Nichols School. 

1888 Edward R. Cary, 

Instructor in Botany and Assistant in Geodesy in the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute. 
1890 William Easby, Jr., 

Instructor in Civil Engineering in the University of Pennsylvania. 

1890 Antonio Llano, 

Instructor in the International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa. 

1891 Edwin G. Adams, Jr., 

Director of the Department of Civil Engineering in the Imperial University, 
Tientsin, China. 

1891 Elmer S. Farwell, 

Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Columbian University, Washington, 
D. C. 

1891 Daniel L. Turner, 

Instructor in Surveying and Railroad Engineering, Lawrence Scientific 
School, Harvard University. 

1892 Paul C. Nugent, 

Instructor in Civil Engineering, Syracuse University. 
1892 Charles Worthington, 

Instructor in Civil Engineering in University of Pennsylvania. 

The list given above shows that graduates of the Rensselaer Poly- 
technic Institute have been Professors of various subjects in the following 
schools: 

Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Blackburn University, Colorado School 
of Mines, Columbia University, Columbian University, Cornell University, 

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Harvard University, Institute Veracrysana (Mexico), Iowa Agricultural 
College, Johns Hopkins University, Kings College (England), Lafayette Col- 
lege, Lawrence University, Lehigh University, Louisiana State University, 
Imperial University (China), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
National School of Mines (Republic of Colombia, S. A.), Northwestern 
University, Olivet College, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, Rochester University, Rutgers College, Stevens Institute of 
Technology, Swarthmore College, Syracuse University, Transylvania 
University, United States Navy, United States Naval Academy, University 
of California, University of Michigan, University of Missouri, University of 
Pennsylvania, University of "Wisconsin, University of West Virginia, 
University of Tokio (Japan), Washington University, Western University 
of Pennsylvania, Williams College, Yale University. 



Some Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
who have been state geologists. 



CLASS. 

1826 *Ebenezer Emmons, 

Late State Geologist of North Carolina. 
1829 *DouGLAS Houghton, 

Late State Geologist of Michigan. 
1832 * James Hall, 

Late State Geologist of New York. 

1835 *MlCHAEL TtrOMEY, 

Late State Geologist of South Carolina and Alabama. 
1839 *George H. Cook, 

Late State G^logist of New Jersey. 



Work of Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
IN Developing the Railroad Systems of the World. 



Space cannot be given for the names of those graduates who as Presi- 
dents, Vice-Presidents, Engineers, Managers and Superintendents have 
in both hemispheres largely helped to develop the material resources of 
the world. Nor can a complete record of such work be obtained. An idea 
of its magnitude may be gathered from the statement that a partial record 
shows them to have held such positions on more than one hundred and 
fifty-one thousand (151,000) miles of the railroad systems of North America. 
In South America, Europe and Japan also many miles of railroads have 
been built by them. Twelve Presidents and more than fifty Chief Engineers 
are numbered among its alumni. A partial list of the systems in North 
America which they have helped to build and operate is here given : 

Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railway. 
Alabama Midland Railroad. 
Allegheny Valley Railroad. 
Atlantic and Ontario Railroad. 
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. 
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 

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Boston and Maine Railroad. 

Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railroad. , 

Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. 

Butler, Anaconda and Pacific Railroad. 

Butler and Pittsburg Railroad. 

Carillon and Granville Railroad 

Cairo and Fulton Railroad. 

California Pacific Railroad. 

Canada Southern Railroad. 

Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad. 

Central Pacific Railroad. 

Central Railroad of Georgia. 

Central Railroad of New Jersey. 

Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. 

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. 

Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad. 

Chicago and Alton Railroad. 

Chicago and Northern Railroad. 

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. 

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. 

Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad. 

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. 

Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad. 

Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, 

Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad. 

Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Raihroad. 

Cincinnati Southern Railroad. 

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. 

Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad. 

Colorado Midland Railroad. 

Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railroad. 

Cressen, Clearfield County, and New York Short Route Railroad. 

Davenport and St. Paul Railroad. 

Dead wood Central Railroad. 

Delaware and Hudson Company. 

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. 

Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad. 

Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. 

Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. 

Erie Railroad. 

Fitchburg Railroad. 

Fall Brook Railway. 

Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad 

Fort Scott, Guif and Texas Railroad. 

Foxburg, Petersburg and Clarion Railroad. 

Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad. 

Galveston, Harrisburg and Saia Antonio Railroad. 

Georgia Central Railroad. 

Grand Trunk Raih-oad. 

Great Northern JRailway. 

Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. 

Houston and Texas Central Railroad. 

Illinois Central Railroad. 

Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad. 

Intercolonial Railway. 

James River Valley Railroad. 

Jersey City and Albany Railroad. 

Kansas City, Fort Smith and Southern Railroad. 

Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad. 

Keene Valley Railroad. 

Lake Erie and Western Railroad. 

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. 

Leavenworth, Topeka and Southwestern Railroad. 

Lehigh Valley Railroad. 

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Little Miaini Railroad. 

Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 

Louisville Southern Railroad. 

Louisville, St. Louis and Texas Railroad. 

Mahoney and Broad Mountain Railroad. 

Maine Central Railroad. 

Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad. 

Mexican Central Railroad. 

Mexican National Railroad. 

Michigan Central Railroad. 

Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. 

Minneapolis and Cedar Valley Railroad 

Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad. 

Mobile and Ohio Railroad. 

Montana Central Railroad. 

Montclair Railroad. 

Morris and Essex Railroad. 

Nevada and Oregon Railroad. 

New Jersey Midland Railroad. 

New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad. 

New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad. 

New Orleans Pacific Railroad. 

Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad. 

New York and Erie Railroad. 

New York and New England Railroad. 

New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, 

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. 

New York and Manhattan Beach Railroad. 

New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. 

New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad. 

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. 

New York, Ontario and Western Railroad. 

New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, 

New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad. 

New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad. 

Norfolk and Western Railroad. 

Northern and Western Railroad. 

Northern Central Railway. 

Northern Pacific Railroad. 

Ohio and Mississippi Railway. 

Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad. 

Panama and Aspinwall Railroad. 

Paris, Marshall and Sabine Pass Railway. 

Pennsylvania Company. 

Pennsylvania Midland Railroad. 

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. 

Peoria and Eastern Railroad. 

Perkiomen Railroad, 

Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. 

Philadelphia and Reading Railway, 

Pittsburg, Butler and Lake Erie Railroad, 

Pittsburg and Western Railroad, 

Pittsburg, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railroad, 

Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. 

Pittsburg, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad. 

Poughkeepsie, Hartford and Boston Railroad. 

Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad. 

Reading and Columbia Railroad. 

Repubfican Valley Railroad. 

Richmond and Danville Railroad. 

Rochester and State Line Railroad. 

Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. 

Rondout and Oswego Railroad, 

St, Joseph and Grand Island Railroad. 

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St. Louis and Hannibal Railway. 

St. Louis and San Francisco Railway. 

St. Paul and Duluth Railroad. 

San Francisco Railroad. 

Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway. 

Savannah, Florida and Western Railway. 

Seattle and International Railroad. 

Seaboard Air Line Passeng-er Route. 

Silver Spring, Ocala and Gulf Raihroad, 

Sioux City and Pacific Railroad. 

Sioux City and Pembina Railroad. 

Southern Pacific Company. 

Southern Pennsylvania Railroad. 

South Side Railroad of Long- Island. 

Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad. 

Sussex Railroad. 

Syracuse, Bing-hamton and New York Railroad. 

Texas and Pacific Railway. 

Texas, Santa Fe and Northern Railroad. 

Toledo and Ohio Central Railway. 

Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati Railway. 

Troy and Boston Railroad. 

Ulster and Delaware Railroad. 

Union Pacific Railway. 

United States Central Railroad. 

Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad. 

Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad. 

WallkiU Valley Railroad. 

Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Western Pacific Railroad. 

West Shore Railroad. 

Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. 



BRIDGE AND BRIDGE COMPANIES WITH WHICH GRADUATES OF THE 

RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE HAVE BEEN CONNECTED 

AS DESIGNERS AND CONSTRUCTORS. 



The bridg-es desig-ned and constructed in v/hole or in part by graduates 
of the Institute are so numerous that no estimate of their number or length 
can be made. It is safe to say that there is no State in the Union, and 
very few railroads of any magnitude, which do not contain structures built 
by them. They have held responsible positions as Presidents and Engi- 
neers in most of the large bridge companies in the country, among others 
in the : 



Canton Bridge Company, 
Delaware Bridge Company, 
Detroit Bridge Company, 
Edge Moor Bridge Works, 
Elmira Bridge Company, 
Keystone Bridge Company, 
King Bridge Company, 
Louisville Bridge Company, 
Massillon Bridge Company, 
Milwaukee Bridge Company, 



Morse Bridge Works, 
Niagara Bridge Companj% 
Pennsylvania Steel Company, 
Pencoyd Bridge Works, 
Phoenix Bridge Company, 
Philadelphia Bridge Works, 
Pittsburg Bridge Company, 
Rochester Bridge Works, 
Union Bridge Company, 



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They have been represented in the design or construction of most of the 
great bridges of the country and of some in foreign countries ; among 
others in the 

Albany and Greenbush, Hudson River, Albany, N. Y. ; B. & O. R. R., 
Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Pa. ; B. & O. R. R., Arthurkill, near 
Elizabeth, N. J. ; Beaver Falls, Ohio River, Beaver Falls, Pa. ; Big Warrior, 
Big Warrior River, Alabama; Gokteik Viaduct, Burmah, Asia ; Cairo, Ohio 
River, Cairo, 111. ; Central, Harlem River, New York ; Ceredo, Ohio River, 
Ceredo, W. Va. ; Cincinnati and Covington, Ohio River, Cincinnati, O.; 
Cincinnati and Newport, Ohio River, Cincinnati, O.; Choctaw and Mem- 
phis Railway Bridge, Little Rock, Ark.; D. & H. C. Co., Hudson River, 
Troy, N. Y. ; Duluth and Superior Bridge, Duluth, Minn.; East River 
Suspension, East River, New York ; Elevated Railroads of New York, 
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, etc. ; Fort Madison, Missouri 
River, Fort Madison, Mo.; Girard Avenue, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, 
Pa. ; Havre de Grace, Susquehanna River, Havre de Grace, Md. ; Hawkes- 
bury, Hawkesbury River, Australia; Henderson, Ohio River, Henderson, 
Ky. ; Kentucky and Indiana, Ohio River, Louisville, Ky. ; Kinzua Viaduct, 
Kinzua Valley, Pa.; Market Street, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
Merchant, Mississippi River, St. Louis, Mo. ; Madison Avenue, Harlem 
River, New York; M. & B. R. R., Tombigbee River, Tombigbee, Ala.; 
City, Mississippi River, St. Paul, Minn. ; Nev^r East River Bridge, Nev7 
York; N. Y. C. «& N. R. R., Harlem River, New York; N. Y. C. & H. R. 
R. R., Albany, N. Y. ; Niagara Highway Suspension, renewal of, Niagara 
River, Niagara Falls, N. Y. ; Niagara Highway Arch Bridge ; Niagara 
Railway Suspension, renewal of, Niagara River, Suspension Bridge N. 
Y.; Niagara Railway Arch Bridge, Niagara Cantilever, Niagara River, 
Suspension Bridge, N. Y. ; P. R. R., Perth Amboy, N. J.; P. R. R., 
Susquehanna River, Harrisburg, Pa. ; Poughkeepsie, Hudson River, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; Pecos River Viaduct, Pecos Gorge, Texas ; Red 
Rock, Colorado River, Needles, Cal. ; Rondout, Rondout Creek, Kingston, 
N. Y. ; Sibley, Missouri River, Sibley. Mo. ; Stillwater, Hudson River, 
Stillwater, N. Y. ; Sixth Street, Allegheny River, Pittsburg, Pa.; 
Thames River, Thames River, New London, Conn. ; Verrugas Viaduct, 
Peru, S. A.; Van Buren, Red River, Van Buren, Ark.; Washington, 
Harlem River, New York ; Wheeling, Ohio River, Wheeling, W. Va. 



BRIDGE ENGINEERS WHO HAVE BEEN GRADUATED FROM THE 
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE. 



CLASS. 

1846 *Percival Roberts, 

Joint Proprietor of the Pencoyd Iron Works. 

1847 *JoHN W. Murphy, 

Constructor of Murphy Whipple Bridges, 

1855 Francis Collingwood, 

Formerly Assistant Engineer on the New York and Brooklyn Suspension 
Bridge. 

1856 Charles C. Martin, 

Chief Engineer of the New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge. 

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CLASS. 

1856 ♦Oilman Trafton, 

Member of the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company. 

1857 Roberto Escobar, 

Assistant Engineer Union Bridye Company. 

1857 Gabriel Leverich, 

Mechanical Engineer, East River Suspension Bridge. 

1857 Charles Macdoxald, 

Of the Union Bridge Company. 

1857 Washington A. Roebling, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the East River Suspension Bridge. 

1853 Theodore Cooper, 

Consulting Engineer. 

1858 Joseph M. Wilson, 

Formerly Engineer of Bridges and Buildings of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company. 

1861 Alfred P. Boller, 

Consulting Engineer. 

1863 Edwin Thacher, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the Kej^stone Bridge Company. Consulting 
Engineer for the Shiftier Bridge Company, 

1863 ♦F'rederick W. Vaughan, 

Late President Louisville Bridge and Iron Company. 

1867 Abraham B. Cox, 

Formerly Resident Engineer of Lehigh Bridge and Iron Works. 

1867 Samuel J. Fields, 

Formerly Engineer Niagara Bridge Works. 

1867 Francis H. Saylor, 

Of the Philadelphia Bridge Works. 

1868 Leffert L. Buck, 

Chief Engineer New East River Bridge, New York City. Consulting 
Engineer. 

1868 O. F. Nichols, 

Principal Assistant, New East River Bridge. Chief Engineer Brooklyn 
Elevated Railroad Company. 

1871 *WiLLiAM L. Baker, 

Late Superintendent and Engineer, Detroit Bridge and Iron Works. 

1871 Fred. L. Garlinghouse, 

Chief Engineer of the Pittsburg Bridge Compan3^ 

1871 Henry G. Morse, 

Formerly President of the Morse Bridge Works and the Edge INIoor Bridge 
Company. 

1872 John F. Alden, 

Proprietor of the Rochester Bridge and Iron Works. 
1872 William H. Burr, 

Formerly General Manager of the Phoenix Bridge Company. 
1872 David Reeves, 

President of the Phoenix Bridge Company. 

1872 A. J. Swift, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. 

1873 Thomas J. Long, 

Formerly of the Union Bridge Company. 
1875 Edward W. Eckert, 

Formerly President of the Massilon Bridge Company. 
1875 Frank Pond, 

Engineer Rochester Bridge and Iron Works. 
1875 John A. L. Waddell, 

Consulting Engineer. 

1875 Jacob T. Wainwright, 

American Bridge Company. 

1876 Edward C. Carter, 

Formerly of the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works. 
1876 Edward J. Landor, 

Chief Engineer of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. 

1876 CharlksSooysmith, 

Of Sooj'smith & Company. 

1877 Daniel W. Church, 

Resident Engineer, Pittsburg Bridge Company. Formerly with Wrought 
Iron Bridge Company. 

1877 Joseph E. Waltz, 

Columbia Bridge Company. 

1878 Edward C. Shankland, 

Chief Engineer of the World's Fair Buildings, Chicago. 

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CLASS. 

1878 Georgb E. Thackray, 

Superintendent Structural Department, Cambria Steel Company. 

1879 James M. Johnson, 

President and Chief Engineer of the Louisville Bridge Company. 

1879 Charles F. Stowell, 

Formerly Bridge Engineer of the New York State Railroad Commission; now 
of the American Engineering and Inspection Company. 

1879 Alfred A. Stuart, 

Engineer of Maintenance and Construction, Brooklyn Elevated Railroad; 
Chief Engineer Degnon-McLean Construction Company. 

1880 GusTAVE Ka qfm an. 

Of Ferris, Kaufman & Company. 

1880 Frank C. Osborn, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the King Bridge Company. 

1880 James W. Pearl, 

Formerly Chief Engineer of the MassUon Bridge Company. 

1880 Preston King Yates, 

Superintendent of Construction, New Central Bridge, New York, N. Y. 

1881 William H. Breithaupt, 

Consulting Engineer. 

1881 *G. W. G. Ferris, Jr., 

Of G. W. Ferris, Jr., and Company. 

1881 George A. Just, 

Of Lewinson & Just. 

1881 William S. McCord, 

Of the Emira Bridge Company. 

1882 Conway B. Hunt, 

Engineer of Bridges, District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. 

1882 O. Julius Marstrand, 

Assistant Engineer Brooklyn Elevated Railroad. 

1883 Albert W. Buel, 

Superintendent of the Milwaukee Bridge Company. Bridge Engineer of the 
Lake Erie and I<Iichigan Southern Railway Company. 

1883 James C. Hallsted, 

Of Hallsted and McNaugher. 

1884 William A. Aycrigg, 

Assistant Engineer, Edge Moor Bridge Works. 
1884 Francis H. Bainbridge, 

Assistant Engineer Edge Moor Bridge Works. 
1884 Frank Chrysler, 

Of Van Zile & Chrysler Bridge Works. 

1884 Hahry L. Van Zile, 

Of Van Zile & Chrysler Bridge Works. 

1885 Andrew C. Cunningham, 

Of the American Engineering and Inspection Association. 
1885 James Hetzel, 

Of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. 
1885 Henry W. Hodge, 

Chief Engfineer of the Union Iron Works; Consulting Engineer. 
1885 H. A. La Chicotte, 

Eastern Manager of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. 
1885 D. W. McNaugher, 

With Fen-is, Kaufman & Company. 

1885 James H. Whitner, 

Formerly with G^eorge H. Craft & Company. Now with the North Carolina 
Bridge Company. 

1886 Dwight a. Hitchcock, 

With Detroit Bridge Works. 

1886 John Van W. Reynders, Jr., 

Engineer of the Bridge and Construction Department of the Pennsylvania 
Steel Company. 

1887 Richard S. Buck, 

Chief Engineer Lewiston & Queens town Suspension Bridge. 
1887 Archie L Colby, 

With the Detroit Bridge and Iron Company. 
1887 Thomas Earle, 

Superintendent of Shops, B. & C. Department, Pennsylvania Steel Company. 
1887 George E. Gifford, 

Engineer and Eastern Manager of the King Bridge Company. 
1887 John H. Gray, 

Of Estrada, Kenyon and Gray. 
1887 William P. Gronau, 

Assistant Engineer, Edge Moor Bridge Works. 

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CLASS. 

1887 Archer C. Stites, 

Eng-ineer of the Phcenix Bridg-e Company and Phoenix Iron Company, 
Chicago. 

1887 Richard G. Wagner, 

Manager Milwaukee Bridgre and Iron Works. 

1887 Victor M. Witmer, 

Of the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works. 

1888 Ernest G. Freeman, 

Resident Engineer, New East River Bridge. 
1888 Francis W. Scarborough, 

Engineer of Bridges, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. 

1888 Pemberton Smith, 

Superintendent of the Hudson River Bridge Company. 

1889 George S. Groesbeck, 

Chief Engineer, Springfield Construction Company. 
1389 Albert A Wigand. 

Engineer of the Jackson Architectural Iron Works. 

1890 Richard D. Gottlieb, 

Bridge Division of Carnegie Steel Company. 

1892 George E. Ellis, 

Superintendent of the Hudson River Bridge Company. 
1892 Charles G. Schade, 

With the Keystone Bridge Company. 

1892 W. C. H. Slagle, 

Assistant Engineer, Pencoyd Iron Works. 

1893 Charles Worthington, 

Designing Engineer with Keystone Bridge Works. 
1893 Ralph H. Chambers, 

Manager of the Boston office of the King Bridge Company. 
1893 George T. Horton, 

Engineer Chicago Bridge and Iron Company. 



THE NUMBER OF GRADUATES OF THE RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC 

INSTITUTE WHO HAVE BECOME MEMBERS OF THE 

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OVIL ENGINEERS- 

As another indication of the success attained by graduates of the 
Institute there is g-iven below a table showing- the agg-reg-ate of those who 
had, prior to October, 1899, become members of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers; — the leading Engineering Society in America. 

NUMBER. 

M. Am. Soc. C. E., living 142 

M. Am. Soc. C. E., dead 16 

Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E., living 26 

Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E. , dead 1 

Assoc. Am. Soc. C. E., living 7 

Assoc. Am. Soc. C. E., dead 1 

JuN. Am. Soc C. E., living 41 

JuN. Am. Soc. C. E. , dead 3 

FEI.LOW Am. Soc. C. E 1 

Total number 238 

It will be observed that more than eleven per cent, of the Society have 
been Alumni of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

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